tenace - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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tenace (plural tenaces)
- (bridge) An interrupted sequence of high cards of the same suit, such as the king and jack or the ace and queen.
- major tenace: the first- and third-best cards
- minor tenace: the second- and fourth-best cards
Learned borrowing from Latin tenāx. Compare inherited Old French tenais.
tenace (plural tenaces)
- “tenace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
tenace (not comparable)
tenace (plural tenaci, superlative tenacissimo)
Borrowed from French tenace, from Latin tenax.
tenace m or f or n (masculine plural tenaci, feminine and neuter plural tenace)